Help Me Get Her Out of My Heart

I put in my personal ifit trainer card that I bought this weekend into my elliptical last night to start my 8 weeks of electronic personal training. Turns out that my personal trainer's name is Rhonda. Ok, so she may not be uniquely mine but she is for the sake of me moving through these workouts for the next 8 weeks. (For the record, I just looked up the lyrics to 'Help Me Rhonda' *help, help me Rhonda* and there are very few words in that song. How did the Beach Boys ever gain such acclaim?). I am almost glad I didn't get Jillian - that trainer from The Biggest Loser? She's scary, man!

Anyhow, help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda was cool. I chose to jump right into level 2 workouts instead of wasting the money on level one because I got back into working out and making it through 45 minute workouts on my own. Now I wanted that extra push and more varied workouts. The level two card has 24 30-45 minute workouts (thus 3 a week for 8 weeks). Last night I did the first one for 30 minutes. It was actually really good and did what I needed it to. Instead of letting me get lost in my book and just meandering through the half hour, she spoke up at the right time and was like 'pick it up!' or 'don't forget your goals!'. I don't really know what my goals per se are...they aren't hard and fast but obviously working harder and longer can't hurt towards getting to whatever amorphous place those goals are hiding. But the workout was loaded with hills and she upped the resistance and stuff to make me work harder which clearly I wouldn't have had the motivation to do on my own.

I'm interested, excited almost to see what Rhonda has in store for workout #2. With my reduced workload in the evenings, she and I should be able to spend some quality time together. So far so good with this purchase. Though 'purchase' is kind of misnomer. Hopefully I can start putting some money towards it post taxes and post raise (!!) this month.